CLIMATE

The architects behind this year's sweeping Senate energy and climate proposal are working overtime to round up support for a slimmed-down version of their bill that would curb emissions from only the electric utility sector. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) had previously conceded that they would be willing to scale back their goal of an economywide price on carbon, and the pair are now ramping up efforts to take the lead in making such a utility-only bill a reality.